OBIT: A. V. Jayaraman of Kartik Fine Arts sabha team
A. V. Jayaraman who served as vice president of Kartik Fine Arts, a prominent sabha in Mylapore passed away on October 24. He was a longtime resident of Mylapore before moving south of the city....
View ArticleObit: Retired banker and MKT fan, D. V. Balakrishnan
Retired banker D. V. Balakrishnan passed away on December 9. He was 81 years old. He retired from Indian Bank as AGM (Vigilance). He had a profound knowledge of Carnatic/classical music though he did...
View ArticleObit: Seshadri Iyengar, retired banker offered match-making as free service
K. Seshadri Iyengar, a retired banker and a senior Mandaveli resident, passed away at the age of 91 years on January 1. He was a resident of Srinivasan Street, Mandaveli for some two decades. He...
View ArticleDr. Shantha’s Mylapore connection
The Mylapore connection of Dr. V. Shantha, renowned oncologist and head of the Cancer Institute in Chennai who passed away on Jan.19 was a long-standing one. Journalist and arts activist V. R. Devika...
View ArticleTribute: retired banker M. Ramamurthy
Senior retired banker M. Ramamurthy, aged 74 passed away on January 12. He was a resident of Mylapore for over seven decades. Ramamurthy, an alumnus of the 1962 batch of P. S. High School was...
View ArticleTribute: Sarada Venkataramani
Sarada Venkataramani, who belonged to an illustrious family of Mylapore ( her grandfather T. R. V. Sastri was a Mylapore icon and daughter Prabha Sridevan retired as Madras High Court judge) passed...
View ArticleObit: Sukanya Balasugavanam, longtime Mandaveli resident and Lady Sivaswami...
Sukanya Balasugavanam, aged 74 years passed away on Friday, February 5. She was the wife of S. Balasugavanam, retired deputy director, ministry of industries. She was a resident of Mandaveli for more...
View ArticleTribute: senior advocate R. Mohan
R. Mohan, a resident of Sriram Nagar South Street, Alwarpet for the past 15 years and a senior advocate passed away on Feb.19 at the age of 95 years. He served as a senior counsel in Madras High Court...
View ArticleTribute: Meena Sambamurthy of Mylapore
Meena Sambamurthy, aged 84, passed away on March 3,2021. She was the wife of K. Samba Murthy and a resident of Mylapore for more than 35 years. She was a retired employee of the Department of...
View ArticleObit: Retired math teacher S. Vedavalli
Vedavalli S (alias) Veda aged 74, passed away on March 3. She was a resident of Mylapore for decades and the daughter of violinist duo Kumbakonam Komalavalli and Srinivasan. She was a teacher of...
View ArticleTribute: R. Muthusubramaniam, civil engineer, passionate music artiste
R. Muthusubramaniam (Muthumani) passed away after a brief illness, on February 22 at his residence in R. A. Puram where he had been living for the past 22 years. A civil engineer by profession, he...
View ArticleTribute: G. V. Ramakrishna, senior bureaucrat
Dr. G. V. Ramakrishna, a senior IAS officer who occupied key positions and a resident of C.I.T. Colony, Mylapore for more than 20 years, passed away on March 20, a week before his 91 st birthday. He...
View ArticleObit: Scholar T. N. Ramachandran. First to translate over 4300 stanzas of...
Erudite scholar, Sekkizhar-Adi-p-Podi Dr. Thillaisthanam Natarajan Ramachandran passed away last evening at 7.45pm. He was 87. He had been unwell for a while. Till the very end he moved around with a...
View ArticleOBIT: Management consultant Aravamootham Krishnamachari
Management Consultant and Corporate Trainer Aravamootham Krishnamachari, popularly known as KA, passed away on Monday evening (April 12) aged 86. A lifelong learner, he will be remembered for his...
View ArticleTribute: V. Dinakaran, P. S. Senior’s favourite sports teacher
V. Dinakaran, former physical education teacher, P. S. Snr. Sec. School, Mylapore passed away on 14th April. He was 56. A passionate and committed teacher and fun loving friend and mentor to his...
View ArticleTribute: K. S. Manikka Rathinam, retired HM of P. S. High School
K. S. Manikka Rathnam, retired head master of P. S. High school breathed his last at the age of 91 in the United States. He had served the school for thirty three years and retired as the headmaster in...
View ArticleFormer head of Kartik Fine Arts, L. Sabaretnam passes away
Fine arts promoter his and once chairman of Kartik Fine Arts sabha, L. Sabaretnam passed away last night. He was 80 and resided in Besant Nagar. He was president of Kartik Fine Arts for many years and...
View ArticleTribute: Enuga Seetharama Reddy, president, Sri Venugopal Vidyalaya Matric...
Enuga Seetharama Reddy, president of Telugu Mahajana Samajam and of Sri Venugopal Vidyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Mandaveli passed away on April 23 in Bengaluru. Fondly addressed as...
View ArticleTribute: Former TNCA league cricketer Viswanathan dies, aged 88
Former TNCA league cricketer Viswanathan passed away on Monday evening while having dinner. He was 88. He was a long time resident of East Mada Street, residing just next to the Kapali temple ther. He...
View ArticleObit: Mythili Jagannathan of R. A. Puram
Mythili Jagannathan passed away recently at her residence in R. A. Puram. She was 90, and had liver complications. Hailing from Rayampettai, a village near Thiruvaiyaru (Thanjavur district), she...
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